Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston: On the One Hundred and Tenth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence; July 5, 1886 And to this day with what promise and por tent Heaven has pointed! On this day Adams and Jefferson, united on earth in freedom's ser vice, together answered the eternal summons. Was it not a gracious monition that the hands which moulded could not perpetuate, and that the foundations built by the fathers must ever be renewed by the patriotism of the children? On this day the heavenly sign appeared above the red fields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg; the anniversary was heavy with the groans of the wounded and the agonized cries of the bereaved. Oh, glorious sacrifice, which bought that day the promise that the union was to live! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.